Ron Johnson

This is not rocket science. This is not hard. And, we are just going to get this done, OK?

So, Senator Heitkamp, let me tell you what we are going to do here.

There is a reason you are involved in this process here, today. So, we appreciate your testimonies.

I pray that you do not stop Border Patrol agents from going to ICE. That will kill morale, exponentially.

According to CBP's own figures, in order to bring Border Patrol up to the Congressionally-mandated floor--add 5,000 new agents and account for historical 6-percent rate of attrition--the Border Patrol will need to hire over 2,700 agents…

We absolutely have to have a barrier that cannot be defeated.

We do not need a great wall of the United States. We do not need 2,000 miles of border wall.

There is no private company in the United States that can operate and be successful if they have a 50-percent success rate.

We failed the citizens of this great Nation by not securing the border.

Had we have held those individuals in custody--or that one individual in custody, pending a determination on whether that person should be allowed to remain in this country, that rape would not have happened.

The world has failed. We have stood by, the world, for 6 years and watched the slaughter of a half million, at least, Syrians.

I could not agree more. It is shameful.

The politics have changed.

Well, if you we cede the leadership of technology for coal-fired plants to the Chinese and to India, we will not have a better outcome.

We want to enforce our laws. We want to keep this Nation safe.

You know this is a commitment. You know the serious nature of the responsibility you are assuming.

I appreciate your good questions.

By the way, a real-world example of the effectiveness of fencing, read our report, the result of my trip to Israel right before Christmas, 143 miles of fence put up in 2 years, cost of about $2.9 million per mile, cut the illegal…

There is no political party that has a monopoly on compassion.

The good news is the little baby did get admitted, and her surgery has been successful.

I think one of the things that inhibits that is all the rhetoric, the slogans, the buzz words that I'd want to try and cut through a little bit.

In my example, I don't think too many neighbors would chip in the money to build that bridge when they realize they're not ever going to be able to use it or certainly not get priority on it.

How much worse could it get? At what point does that trigger a refugee flow?

What would a significant flow be? I mean, what are you concerned about? Are you talking about hundreds of thousands? Tens of thousands?

So, again, let me go back to the refugee flow. To summarize I think what Dr. O'Neil is saying, so the Venezuelan Government is doing a pretty good job of keeping its citizens there, preventing them from leaving, and/or it just has not…